EclipseMC having block over whole day long few days before. Eligius very long blocks too. BTCGuild seems fewer blocks in PPLNS.

Luck for all pools going down after last difficulty increase? Is how supposed to work? Makes bad for small pools. Slush still just right size, but doing all by longer blocks now I bet. Soon not worth to play mining.

This is just a quick and dirty to put a hold on transfers until the IRS can figure out how to tax them.

Nah, IRS wouldn't need DHS to do their dirty work. DHS being involved means someone thinks they are funding terrorists or some other national security threat. <tin-foil-hat> Or, at least, that's the excuse they'll have to use to explain DHS's involvement should this turn out to be a conspiracy by the US government to eliminate a competing currency that they can't control. </tin-foil-hat>

Figures this would happen on the same day I got my new GPU and tripled my hash rate.

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Hopefully they get their hands slapped if they aren't in the US they should tell them to f off. Like the entire world is about to do for the central banks. Its always bad for BTC/etc folks to rely on one single site it defeats the purpose of it being "unseizable".